September 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The Charlie Kirk shooter confesses & Trump traveling to Great Britain
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- People getting fired for cheering for Charlie Kirk's death
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Decide and now he arms ranged.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
From Studio CS and this is the dimly lit room
default from the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
compound on Tuesday and run to the tutelage of our
general manager, Benjamin Netting Yahoo.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He is the Prime Minister of Israel. Why is he
our general manager? That is correct? The invasion of Gaza
City has begun, we're told the end stage of the
battle to disarm Hamas. In spite of all the warnings,
I would characterize them as whinings by various people in
(01:08):
the political scene. It has begun. Well, if he didn't
adjust his timing for the Charlie Cook shooting, Kirk Kirk, God,
I did it again the Charlie Kirk shooting coverage, then
you know it's a heck of a good coincidence for Israel,
because that would be the number one story on every
(01:29):
cable news channel, except for it's not because still obsessing
about everything that is the assassination of Charlie Kirk, For
better or worse, I'm kind of surprised we're on day
five of it being not only the lead story, but
practically the only story on cable news. Yeah. I just
think people are generally aware that something has broken, and
(01:54):
more and more people are more and more aware of that,
and anything other than that seems insignificant, could be to
a lot of folks, could be. You can't disagree with
their conclusion. No, that conversation is at the highest level.
The intricacies of the charges don't fascinate me that much.
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But that's just me fair enough. You know, there's a
here's a federal charge, and there's then they'll be in
court and here's your hearing, and just that sort of stuff.
I don't I don't get that excited about, right, Yeah,
I would agree with that, although, well it's going to
feature in mailbag. But we got a great note from
a listener who was wondering why the shooter I bother
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saying alleged at this point he's confessed, you right, the
the assassin. Why hasn't he gone full soapbox statement advocating
his beliefs because he's absolutely caught dead to right, and
this emailers theory is that there was indeed fore knowledge
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among his community of ultra online tough talking gamer geek buddies,
but they had no idea that he was actually the
sort of guy who would do it, and he's trying
to save their skins as his final act of friendship. Um,
that makes more sense because if you're an outspoken advocate
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of something and you assassinate for somebody because you think
you're on the right side of history and went to
the trouble of writing messages on the bullets, you usually
say it out loud because you think you will be
well judged by history as a hero or at least right.
Yeah and yeah, and he's still claiming he didn't do it,
so that's a good point. So apparently he was talking
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about it like on discord, like the way gamers talk
to each other. Yeah, that whole gaming world. Well any
posted guys, it was May I'm sorry about all of this.
Yeah wow, oh okay, Well thanks for your apology. So
how do you take that? Why did he say that?
I don't know that I think was a load to
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pretty certainty, he knew that his cohort had been talking
about this sort of thing and fantasizing about it, and
maybe even had four knowledge of it. As those seven
social media accounts we talked about yesterday, the exclusive in
the Washington Free Beacon. He knew he had brought enormous
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trouble to them. Those parts haven't come home to roost yet,
but I think he thinks they will. Yeah, I was reading.
I don't know if they've released the latest Bill Maher
video yet, but he was recording the day Charlie Kirk
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was shot, and he had just done one of his
basement conversations with him just a couple of months ago.
I watched it over the weekend, and it's such a good,
calm conversation. I mean, it's just so good. Yeah. Yeah,
it suggest you find it on YouTube and a model
of what are politics out of a It's just so good.
And he obviously liked the guy and is just so
disturbed by the politics getting out of hand. Or you
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can't have the kind of conversations where Bill Maher has,
you know, a conservative inn and talks to him. As
he was making the point there are lots of people
that want to kill both of them, him and Charlie Kirk. Yeah,
and he pointed out they're all lefties that wanted to
kill both of them. Yeah, mar made a statement the
other day. I can't remember if we had the audio
about how now it's from that show. Oh it was, yeah,
(05:39):
which I don't think is aired yet. Okay, Yeah, he
was talking about I think Billy Corgan of Correct smashing pumpkins.
That's right. Interestingly enough, today is the greatest day I've
ever known. Happy for you anyway. He was saying that, Look,
say what you want about the right wingers, but they'll
talk to you, and you can talk to them, and
they'll answer your questions and they're happy to chat with you.
(06:02):
The lefties want nothing to do with anybody who disagrees
with them. You're unclean, you're a horror, You're some human
that's set sick. That's a sickness, and it doesn't exist
exclusively on the left, obviously, but I would suggest culturally
that is more the norm. For reasons we've discussed one
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hundred times. If you're conservative, you're surrounded by progressive media
and education, maybe your church, people you work with, who
are more than happy to tell you what you think,
and you just say, well, all right, you're misguided, but
you're nice. Turning into the Emmys, oh oh lord, well
that's a mistake. But if you're a lefty, you don't
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turn on mainstream television and have to hear things you
hate politically ever, ever, like, never once in your life
do you go to a concert or a movie or
flip on some TV show and have to hear politics
you hate if you lean ever, if you lean right,
it's every single time you flip on the TV, every
(07:05):
concert you go to. But yeah, so I think that
does have something to do with it. Well, and a
lot of left America imagines, and Bill Maher was addressing
this in his remarks, imagines that anybody who disagrees with
them on the right is just a blood thirsty, wild
eyed lunatic or an actual fascist or something. They actually
(07:28):
believe it because they've never met one. It was like,
and this is an odd parallel, but one of the
successful facets of the gay rights movement was that, hey,
the San Francisco was it fulsome street leather fair. This
is not what being gay is. That's a bunch of freaks.
It's your accountant, it's your next door neighbor, it's your coworker,
(07:51):
it's you know whatever, your orthodonist. And that demystified the
idea for a lot of people. Well, maybe we ought
to have some of coming out as a conservative movement.
Let's pick a day. What's a month from today? We
gotta get organized. October sixteenth will be coming out. I'm
out and I'm proud lean.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So I just came across this on Twitter. Somebody's pointing
out that CBS their coverage yesterday had somebody their guest
on saying, motive remains elusive. It's not driven by an
obvious political ideology. Oh my god, I saw that one
where else. I've seen that on several different Oh my god,
alphabet news that arcs Oh he said I hate Charlie
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Kirk and then he killed him because of his politics.
Because of his politics. I'm thinking, oh, I lost a thread.
That's too complicated. Good lord, The motive remains elusive. The
guy went on and on at dinner till people like, oh, jeez,
w you shut up. But how much he despised Charlie Kirk.
(09:00):
So God, what's it like to be that blind? So
Trump is in England today for his second state dinner
with the Prime Minister, and he's gonna hang out with
King Charles. First time any presidents had two of those
two state dinners in Great Britain. But here's the big thing. Yes,
there's gonna be more horses for Trump than there was
(09:23):
for Macron. Good They're gonna have more horses because they
got to make it clear that the special relationship is
even because they remember the thing with Macron like a
couple of weeks ago. Is over the top in terms
of pageantry, and I hate the pageantry. I mean, God,
no kidding, no, no surprise at friends in Great Britain
do it, since most of their lives they had kings
and queens that ran the place. But I hate the pageantry.
(09:45):
It's just the wrong image for everything that says democracy.
But Trump's gonna be there and they're gonna make sure
they have more horses for him than they had for Macron.
That is a very trumpy thing. It is Moses to uses.
Many people say our horses are the best that have
ever tried, the horses I've ever seen, right and arms
(10:06):
sources I some people say they're the biggest tors has
ever seen. But they're gonna announce some sort of nuclear deal.
But the reason I brought it up, and I want
to talk about this more later, man, I was listened
to a podcast over the weekend and yesterday with a
writer from the Telegraphed. He's a commonist from the Telegraph
talking about the troubles great Britain has and you could
have it was I don't know how, I didn't know this,
(10:28):
but you could have taken Britain out of it and
put in the United States. And it was exactly the
same thing. Endless theft at stores where things are locked up,
illegal immigration, crime running rampant, so broke, and no neither
party has any interest in doing anything about it at
this point. The Conservatives have given up. Also, it's exactly
(10:50):
the same situation. So how is that? What is driving that?
And listen to this. There were gigantic marches again all
over Britain two days ago. I think it was I saw.
I've got a great story on that coming up. You
haven't heard a word about, got very little coverage. There
are hundreds of thousands of people in the street, enormous
anti immigration marches right and anti government marches. Essentially because
(11:14):
the government brought this upon them, they allowed it, they
encouraged it, they're still encouraging it. The Reform Party is
going to win the next election and that Nigel LeFarge
guy is gonna end up being the head dude, and
that is going to be one of the biggest political
earthquakes in any of our lives. It'd be like if
some if the Tea Party had won the next election
in the United States. Yeah, back in twenty ten. That's
(11:36):
what's going to happen in Great Britain because the Conservatives
are out and the Labor is out because nobody likes
either one of them anymore. Yeah, that's wild, but they are.
They are not. They're worse than us, but not quite
as bad as France in terms of their debt, but
they're exactly the same thing. They're two main parties have decided, well,
you can't get elected by running on we can't keep
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spending like this. It's a disaster. So they just ignore it.
But how did that happen? How do they have the
combination of immigration, crime not being punished, and spending behind
their means, just like we do. What's in the water
that's made that happen? I would suggest a large measure
of it, and nobody ever talks about this, but I
will continue because I remain uncontradicted. Is the fact that
(12:22):
the Ponzi scheme absolutely depends on increasing the population on
young people, specifically young workers, and you're not having babies
Western world. And so for the very same reasons Germany
and France and the United States have opened their borders.
Britain did the same. They're desperate for young workers to
(12:43):
support the social safety net Ponzi scheme. Well, and with
that it requires all sorts of leftist programs just to
let it to kind of lubricate it happening. Yeah, we'll
have to talk about that later because, yeah, the letting
crime go. Why do we both do that at the
same time. Anyway, let's start the show officially before we
(13:06):
get in trouble. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Tuesday, September sixteenth to your twenty twenty five
for Armstrong in getting we approve of this program. All right,
let's beakin then officially recording FCC rules and regulations. Here
we go, at mark, come on, just one clear shot,
this all over?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Come on, we got to get away from me. Why
I want to fight him? Now kill us? Maybe you
want to die?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I'll jump first, Nope, and you jump first? Oh? I said,
what's the matter with you? I can't swim?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The jump will kill you is the next line. That's
from Butcher cashtying the Sundance Kid. One of the biggest
movie stars of all time, Robert Redford has died almost
outlived his fame, as sometimes to people do, because you
almost got to be fifty five to remember him at all.
I don't know about that. Well, his big movies were
(14:10):
when we were little kids, and we're old. He had
a number that we're pretty big too. He's big director, producer,
true that. Anyway, we got a lot more to talk about,
headlines on the way stay here, for instance. And I
don't know the answer to this, but Katie, you're young.
Is Robert Redford mean anything to you as a movie star? Yeah?
He does, he does from what I'm not. I just
(14:33):
know who he is. I don't know a lot of
his roles, right, Yeah, you got to be old to
have seen him in movies. Really yeah? Yeah, but you well,
you don't have time to discuss this. Let's uh, it's
very late, very late. We'll discuss Robert in first long legacy, etcetera.
What you mean, big picture, it's very late. You just mean, like, no, no,
(14:57):
it's late. I'm looking at the clock. Oh okay, let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Katie starting with the Washington Post quote it was me suspect,
and Charlie Kirkshooting appeared to confess in discord chat.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah. Yeah, we were just discussing that last segment and
why he isn't standing up for his what he believes.
Why isn't he doing that?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
From The Free Beacon, new survey finds that nearly eighty
percent of Jewish college students hid their religious identity within
the last year.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't doubt that a bit, I am because they're
afraid of the right. Well, actually they are. Some of
the fringe woke right is blatantly anti Semitic boot on
campuses Bisca's the Left from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Hama's mouthpiece praises hack star Hannah Edinberg's Free Palestine Emmy's message,
but censors her bare shoulders in the video.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I didn't know that. We never played that yesterday, but
so somebody went on an anti Israel brant, but they
censored her bare shoulders. Yeah, that would be too much
for the children. There's too much shallow idiotic virtue signaling. Well, no, no,
she said. In the Muslim world, hey gotcha, they're outraged.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Getcha from study fines, the average child is earning more
than one hundred dollars per month in allowance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I could believe that with inflation. Yea one hundred dollars
anyone who used to be axios twenty five dollars a week. Yeah,
that's not hard to do at all.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Actually, let's go to the Babylon Bee fraud alert triggered
as wife's credit card used to spend less than one
hundred dollars at Target.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, no, kidding, Yeah, that's a perfect thing to fit
in with your allowance thing. I mean, you know, I
go to the grocery store to just get a couple
of things and it's a hundred bucks. Yeah, so it
shows you how he you know what one hundred dollars is.
I don't know. Three dollars a week was good enough
for me, it's good enough for my kids. Going to
be thrifty a quarter to take out the trash seems reasonable,
just like it was when I was right. We got
(17:12):
some more news of the day to get to and
there's a fair amount of it as always if you
missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Cracker Barrel announced yesterday that the company does not have
a DEI department or use those practices while hiring. In fact,
they don't ask you anything before hiring you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You can start today. That's kind of funny. But is
there some narrative that Cracker Barrel is desperate for workers?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't get that.
I'm guessing Seth Myers has never been in a Cracker Barrel,
so no, wouldn't set foot in one. It's still good.
So it's pretty interesting that Luigi Manngioni, he's the scumbag
(18:00):
political assassin who killed the United Healthcare CEO in New York.
And then you got first court appearance today for scumbag
shooter of Charlie Kirk. Both politically young male political assassins
who aren't crazy by the definition of no, they're not,
(18:22):
they're not out of their minds. That was the guy,
the guy that killed that poor girl on the train.
He's completely crazy, right, So then you got it. That
topic has got to be why did we let a
crazy person crazy violent person room around the streets for
so long, right, you can't really blame him, But you
got two political assassins that are going to be in
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courtrooms today, and you know, figuring out where we go
as a culture is a big thing, right Right. So
an interesting offshoot of the horrible assassination of mister Kirk
has been the fact that a number of people, a
(19:03):
shocking number of people on the left of center online world,
have been posting gleeful, celebratory, sarcastic celebrations of the cold
blooded murder of a young father. Well, you know, I'll say,
let's compare and contrast. You're going to have people. There
are people right now. I'm looking at the TV outside
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the courtroom in New York City cheering Luis GIMNNGIONI the murderer.
Why are Why do they get to do it out
loud and not get the same sort of social pushback
that the people cheering Charlie Kirk's death are. I They're
both They're both as horrific in my opinion, right, they're
(19:46):
you know, morally speaking to me, the Charlie thing is
just so stark and clear. His message was the to
murder him. I don't like his ideas, I don't like
his words. I'm going to murder him. And then in turn,
I'm so happy he got murdered. The healthcare ceo that
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morally speaking to me, it's clear enough, but it's not
quite as ab because healthcare in this country is screwed up.
Insurance companies have various practices that many people find loathsome
profit over humanity blah blah blah, lobbyist zeb and it's
just it's a little more cloudy to make the case again,
(20:35):
It's not difficult to me, but it's just not quite
as obvious. Yeah, a man, you got people cheering the
guy who's going to be in quarter who killed another
dad with young kids. So the CEO of United Healthcare,
it's so freaking sick. Oh yeah, trust me, at its core,
I agree with you one hundred percent. Hey, Michael, need
a couple of clips. Microsoft guy from yesterday, Let's trot
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him out again. Clip fifth, the first shaven headed, bearded,
nos ringed Microsoft employee who most online over Charlie and
today that he was shot.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I said some things on Blue Sky and on threads
that i I'm sorry, not sorry for, but I said
them and I deleted them when it was requested that
I do so by my employer.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
And then today, on a weekend, on a weekend.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I'm told that I am no longer employed at Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yes, because you're an idiot after six years of idiocy
building the.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department from scratch?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh, is that it all right? H Next clip and
enjoy how he takes zero responsibility. I lose my job.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Because one of you, some random person, reports my posts to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
My employer, goes out of their way to find out
where I work, and takes my job, takes my security
away from me for a thought, for an opinion, and
you talk about freedom speech like you care about it, and.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You're just gonna take my money, my life, my food
off my plate because I don't like Charley Kirk.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
That's not okay. It is not okay to target me
because I felt joy that day. I can't help how
I feel. I felt joy. That's me, that's what I believe. Wow,
that's what I think of him. I can't help that,
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you know, so I don't deserve the job.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I want to say is unclear on the concept, but
there's so much, many different concepts. He's unclear on. I
don't know where to start. He is, in an odd way,
kind of an avatar of a whole bunch of those
kind of points of view that I don't agree with.
He's got the whole I'm owed job thing because I
worked hard. You can work as hard as you want,
and if a company decides to downsize, they get rid
(23:19):
of you. That's not what happened here. They think you're
a nut because of your ridiculous posting, and then I
don't want you work in there, which is perfectly reasonable.
And to him, the criminal act was reporting what he said,
which his company found so despicable. They said, you can't
work here anymore. So the big bad thing that happened
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in his mind is the reporting of it. Well, and
the whole crazy thing that a lot of people on
the left have of You know, these are my feelings.
You can't tell me my feelings are wrong. Well, you can.
I can tell you to keep them to yourself. You
got to keep your feelings to yourself. Yeah, so there
you go. You want to go, You want to go
home and be happy for somebody's death, even though that's
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really twisted. I guess I can't stop you. But keep
it to yourself. Yeah, yeah, boy, there's a lot there anyway.
The Wall Street Journal now on the beach. Workers are
getting fired over posts mocking Charlie Kirk's death, campaigns to
alert employers to contentious posts, or posing new challenges for bosses.
This is very different from past political controversies at work.
(24:24):
They quote somebody as saying, well, before you get to that,
because that might answer the question I'll ask this. Are
people getting fired because companies think this is going to
really bring some pressure upon us? Or are the people
getting fired because companies are thinking you're not the kind
of person I want around here. Probably both. I think
it's the latter mostly, Yeah, And I mean, if we
(24:47):
had somebody post around here, I wouldn't think it's gonna
damage the operation. I just don't want you around. You're
a nut, right right? You know. I've been thinking about
this a lot because I am a crusader for free
speech rights everywhere all the time. And he invoked a
question of free speech. Of course, as I often say, yes,
you have the freedom to express your ideas, but if
people find your ideas loathsome they are going to react
(25:10):
badly to them. Why do you express yourself if you
don't expect your words to have an effect of some sort. Right.
But the difference, the only effect you want is people
in your tribe to give you a slap on the back. Right.
And I was talking to a friend recently who lives
(25:33):
in a blue state and works in a blue industry
and said, the level of assumption that everybody agrees with us,
and the complete blindness to the idea that even in
a blue state forty three percent of people disagree with me.
That's another example of what we were talking about earlier.
(25:53):
How if you're a conservative, you're faced with politics you
don't like always from birth. And if you lean left,
teacher agrees with you, the guy on the Emmy's agrees
with you, the guy at the concert you went to
agree with you. So you just assume everybody agrees with you.
So I think it's this. If I post something controversy controversial,
which I haven't do, I expect pushback. Yeah. But if
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you're if you lean left, you probably post stuff just
expecting kudos. Yeah, because you're surrounded by people in uh
social media and on TV and all the things I
just mentioned who agree with you, and because you've bullied
your co workers into silence about what they think. So
you're shocked that somebody's upset with it. That is interesting.
I post expecting as could start a real war. Yeah,
(26:37):
they post thinking people are going to love me for this.
I just I don't. I can't understand how people fail
to grasp the reality of people who disagree with them.
It's as if that forty three percent in the bluest
of blue states, because it's probably something close to that.
It's as if they're a quite sound in the distance
(26:58):
they can't quite make out. They're dimly aware of it,
but they can't quite comprehend it. I don't know. It's
where it's difficult to explain because I don't live in
that world. But how do you think Trump got elected?
If you think everybody agrees with you, I guess you
think they're all somewhere else, or they're all ugly, fascist,
(27:19):
racist stereotypes. Couldn't be my coworkers or neighbors or the
people at this backyard barbecue right right. Again, the lack
of awareness is just difficult for me to comprehend. So
the outcry over employees' comments on kirk o post challenges
for employers. The journal is saying, they quote a associate
(27:41):
general counsel and vice president of HR for a big company.
This is very different. I don't really feel like there
was a time when you could have an individual make
a statement on their personal social media and have their
employer receive thousands of phone calls and then they go
through a long list of employers who've gotten those phone
calls and have taken action against employees or fired them
(28:05):
or whatever. Well, if you're a Boston you have both those.
You have the I don't want somebody who thinks this
working around here and I'm getting endless phone calls. Yeah. Right,
So I think there is a huge distinction between the
cancel culture of the George Floyd aftermath lunacy that took
hold of a lot of corporations in America and what
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to Great Britain and they stopped him to ask some questions,
and of course he had to go on about Robert
Redford because he's old. Oh that's just ay day. Oh boy.
So here's here's to me. A giant fundamental difference between
canceling somebody who tweeted all Lives Matter and firing somebody
(29:54):
who takes glee in the murder of Charlie Kirk, the
former the BLM woke uh, a crowd going after people,
a cancel culture. Thing was over fringe political opinions nobody
had heard of five years ago, ten years ago, certainly
(30:15):
five years ago then, and it was merely threats of
damage done by activists on the left, again on principles
that people are like, what are you talking about. It
was sheer ideological brutality. This is calling out somebody who
(30:36):
celebrates a cold blooded murder. Not celebrating cold blooded murder
is blanking universal in the Western world. That's true. You'd
have to compare it to people. And I don't know
anybody who did this who posted I'm glad George Floyd
got killed. But nobody was posting that right right, Yeah,
(30:58):
to even point out, look, this guy shouldn't have died,
but he wasn't a saint. I mean, he was a
drug addict and a you know, and a criminal. In
the rest of it, you could lose your job over that.
By the sheer viciousness of the mob. Celebrating cold blooded
murder is not a Johnny come Lately in the University
(31:19):
subculture new idea. It's horrific. My god. The Old Testament
was written thousands of years ago, and it's right in there. Well,
even without the morality of it, it's the end of
civilization or certainly self governance, right right, So I believe
it's fundamentally different. You know, I say, call somebody in
(31:41):
and talk to them. You don't need to summarily fire them.
I don't know, but that's up to you. I don't know, man.
I mean some of the posts that are just so
clearly blatantly gleeful about his death. I don't want you
around me. Right the year broken. We got mail bag
on the way Trump of course saying interesting things the
(32:01):
TikTok deal. Do you know what the TikTok deal is?
I don't quite get it. Having heard the details today,
stay tuned for all this, I guess. My continuing point
is every clip I've seen from a Robert Redfrough movie
on TV so far today has been from something from
the early seventies or late sixties. Uh. Yeah, that's fifty
(32:22):
years ago. Indeed, he was an old fella. He was
very old, very old. I'm sorry. Freedom will be quote
of the day and all discombobulated. This is from the
great JK. Rowling, who just posted this online. If you
believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents,
you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs,
(32:45):
you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish
those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe
political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're
a terrorist. Wow, some people think she should be put
in Slytherin for that. You know, well played, Phil Anonymous
in Salt Lake says, may I add, if you are
(33:05):
incapable of contemplating this because of who wrote it, you
have been brainwashed. Nah. That's a good one. That's a
good one, Philnonymous, well done. Mail Bag Drum's an ope
mail bag at armstrung a geeddy dot com moved swiftly here.
Sean writes, Guys, it must have been it's been difficult
to listen to blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He's taking issue with the idea that only the fringe
of the left is celebrating this shooting. That has not
been my experience at all. Having close friends who I
consider middle of the road liberals overhearing conversations out and
about and of course Twitter and even dating apps. I've
come across so many who cannot even fake a bit
of sympathy, at best, saying that spreading hate will put
(33:45):
a target on your back. At worst expressing glee and
unrestrained giddiness dating apps. People have these conversations on dating apps. Yeah, wow, yeah,
all right, thanks for the conversation, Sean. Yeah. At best
they're saying, look, you say hateful things, it's going to
put a argued on your back. Wow. All right. Let's
see this is Adam. Whether or not people agree that
(34:06):
the Microsoft guy should get fired over his tweets. I
find one thing interesting. He said he'd created the Microsoft
DEI program from scratch. It's also complaining about being fired
for his views, and people online found out of his beliefs,
which he willingly posted. How many people lost jobs or
didn't get hired because of this guy is the DEI
guy at Microsoft? Good one. How many qualified people who
(34:26):
maybe shared some of their beliefs, not that it matters,
didn't get a job because of his almighty DEI position.
Good point. This smacks of the left demanding the government
forced us to wear masks for COVID and now wants
ICE agents not to wear masks while arresting criminals. The
hypocrisy is palpable and disgusting. It's a good point about
the DEI Department. Let's see by the wait jump over
(34:49):
to this one. Oh, I like this Shelby from elkliss Grove, California.
She's really troubled by elk Grove having no elk. I
was catching up on the Fabulous Angie podcast. You briefly
mentioned people you knew of who found it relaxing to
end their day watching the news rant about how much
(35:10):
they hated Trump. They referred to this as some kind
of self care. Right. It worries me that there are
so many people that mentally and emotionally unstable. My completely
saying self care routine is as follows. One relaxing music,
two scented candles. Three reading a book, specifically Dante's Inferno.
So I can imagine to which circle of Hell each
(35:30):
politician's celebrity and public figure would be assigned. Eh, maybe
we're not that different anyway. Ohing two nice? Ah, I
need a laugh. That's beautiful. Let's see do we have
any more? How much time do we have Michael got
about forty seconds. It was doctor Jay in Charleston, South
(35:50):
Carolina who pointed out the reason the shooter is not
cooperating with authorities is because he had shared his plans
with some of the extremist buddies whose success kept a secret.
The authorities have this loser dead to rights. There'd be
no reason for him not to go full ideological squawk
box right now, except that it would compromise the people
who are also liable to be participating in his conspiracy,
(36:13):
perhaps just shooting off their mouths online, I suspect, but
if they knew and didn't come forward with the plans,
they've committed a crime. Get Ready to hear the word
genocide a lot in the next forty eight hours as
Israel has gone into Gaza to finally wrap this thing up.
It looks like Beyd Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Decide and now he arms ranged.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
From Studio CS and this is the dimly lit room
default from the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
compound on Tuesday and run to the tutelage of our
general manager, Benjamin Netting Yahoo.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
He is the Prime Minister of Israel. Why is he
our general manager? That is correct? The invasion of Gaza
City has begun, we're told the end stage of the
battle to disarm Hamas. In spite of all the warnings,
I would characterize them as whinings by various people in
(01:08):
the political scene. It has begun. Well, if he didn't
adjust his timing for the Charlie Cook shooting, Kirk Kirk, God,
I did it again the Charlie Kirk shooting coverage, then
you know it's a heck of a good coincidence for Israel,
because that would be the number one story on every
(01:29):
cable news channel, except for it's not because still obsessing
about everything that is the assassination of Charlie Kirk, For
better or worse, I'm kind of surprised we're on day
five of it being not only the lead story, but
practically the only story on cable news. Yeah. I just
think people are generally aware that something has broken, and
(01:54):
more and more people are more and more aware of that,
and anything other than that seems insignificant, could be to
a lot of folks, could be. You can't disagree with
their conclusion. No, that conversation is at the highest level.
The intricacies of the charges don't fascinate me that much.
(02:18):
But that's just me fair enough. You know, there's a
here's a federal charge, and there's then they'll be in
court and here's your hearing, and just that sort of stuff.
I don't I don't get that excited about, right, Yeah,
I would agree with that, although, well it's going to
feature in mailbag. But we got a great note from
a listener who was wondering why the shooter I bother
(02:42):
saying alleged at this point he's confessed, you right, the
the assassin. Why hasn't he gone full soapbox statement advocating
his beliefs because he's absolutely caught dead to right, and
this emailers theory is that there was indeed fore knowledge
(03:03):
among his community of ultra online tough talking gamer geek buddies,
but they had no idea that he was actually the
sort of guy who would do it, and he's trying
to save their skins as his final act of friendship. Um,
that makes more sense because if you're an outspoken advocate
(03:25):
of something and you assassinate for somebody because you think
you're on the right side of history and went to
the trouble of writing messages on the bullets, you usually
say it out loud because you think you will be
well judged by history as a hero or at least right.
Yeah and yeah, and he's still claiming he didn't do it,
so that's a good point. So apparently he was talking
(03:48):
about it like on discord, like the way gamers talk
to each other. Yeah, that whole gaming world. Well any
posted guys, it was May I'm sorry about all of this.
Yeah wow, oh okay, Well thanks for your apology. So
how do you take that? Why did he say that?
I don't know that I think was a load to
(04:11):
pretty certainty, he knew that his cohort had been talking
about this sort of thing and fantasizing about it, and
maybe even had four knowledge of it. As those seven
social media accounts we talked about yesterday, the exclusive in
the Washington Free Beacon. He knew he had brought enormous
(04:33):
trouble to them. Those parts haven't come home to roost yet,
but I think he thinks they will. Yeah, I was reading.
I don't know if they've released the latest Bill Maher
video yet, but he was recording the day Charlie Kirk
(04:53):
was shot, and he had just done one of his
basement conversations with him just a couple of months ago.
I watched it over the weekend, and it's such a good,
calm conversation. I mean, it's just so good. Yeah. Yeah,
it suggest you find it on YouTube and a model
of what are politics out of a It's just so good.
And he obviously liked the guy and is just so
disturbed by the politics getting out of hand. Or you
(05:15):
can't have the kind of conversations where Bill Maher has,
you know, a conservative inn and talks to him. As
he was making the point there are lots of people
that want to kill both of them, him and Charlie Kirk. Yeah,
and he pointed out they're all lefties that wanted to
kill both of them. Yeah, mar made a statement the
other day. I can't remember if we had the audio
about how now it's from that show. Oh it was, yeah,
(05:39):
which I don't think is aired yet. Okay, Yeah, he
was talking about I think Billy Corgan of Correct smashing pumpkins.
That's right. Interestingly enough, today is the greatest day I've
ever known. Happy for you anyway. He was saying that, Look,
say what you want about the right wingers, but they'll
talk to you, and you can talk to them, and
they'll answer your questions and they're happy to chat with you.
(06:02):
The lefties want nothing to do with anybody who disagrees
with them. You're unclean, you're a horror, You're some human
that's set sick. That's a sickness, and it doesn't exist
exclusively on the left, obviously, but I would suggest culturally
that is more the norm. For reasons we've discussed one
(06:23):
hundred times. If you're conservative, you're surrounded by progressive media
and education, maybe your church, people you work with, who
are more than happy to tell you what you think,
and you just say, well, all right, you're misguided, but
you're nice. Turning into the Emmys, oh oh lord, well
that's a mistake. But if you're a lefty, you don't
(06:44):
turn on mainstream television and have to hear things you
hate politically ever, ever, like, never once in your life
do you go to a concert or a movie or
flip on some TV show and have to hear politics
you hate if you lean ever, if you lean right,
it's every single time you flip on the TV, every
(07:05):
concert you go to. But yeah, so I think that
does have something to do with it. Well, and a
lot of left America imagines, and Bill Maher was addressing
this in his remarks, imagines that anybody who disagrees with
them on the right is just a blood thirsty, wild
eyed lunatic or an actual fascist or something. They actually
(07:28):
believe it because they've never met one. It was like,
and this is an odd parallel, but one of the
successful facets of the gay rights movement was that, hey,
the San Francisco was it fulsome street leather fair. This
is not what being gay is. That's a bunch of freaks.
It's your accountant, it's your next door neighbor, it's your coworker,
(07:51):
it's you know whatever, your orthodonist. And that demystified the
idea for a lot of people. Well, maybe we ought
to have some of coming out as a conservative movement.
Let's pick a day. What's a month from today? We
gotta get organized. October sixteenth will be coming out. I'm
out and I'm proud lean.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So I just came across this on Twitter. Somebody's pointing
out that CBS their coverage yesterday had somebody their guest
on saying, motive remains elusive. It's not driven by an
obvious political ideology. Oh my god, I saw that one
where else. I've seen that on several different Oh my god,
alphabet news that arcs Oh he said I hate Charlie
(08:37):
Kirk and then he killed him because of his politics.
Because of his politics. I'm thinking, oh, I lost a thread.
That's too complicated. Good lord, The motive remains elusive. The
guy went on and on at dinner till people like, oh, jeez,
w you shut up. But how much he despised Charlie Kirk.
(09:00):
So God, what's it like to be that blind? So
Trump is in England today for his second state dinner
with the Prime Minister, and he's gonna hang out with
King Charles. First time any presidents had two of those
two state dinners in Great Britain. But here's the big thing. Yes,
there's gonna be more horses for Trump than there was
(09:23):
for Macron. Good They're gonna have more horses because they
got to make it clear that the special relationship is
even because they remember the thing with Macron like a
couple of weeks ago. Is over the top in terms
of pageantry, and I hate the pageantry. I mean, God,
no kidding, no, no surprise at friends in Great Britain
do it, since most of their lives they had kings
and queens that ran the place. But I hate the pageantry.
(09:45):
It's just the wrong image for everything that says democracy.
But Trump's gonna be there and they're gonna make sure
they have more horses for him than they had for Macron.
That is a very trumpy thing. It is Moses to uses.
Many people say our horses are the best that have
ever tried, the horses I've ever seen, right and arms
(10:06):
sources I some people say they're the biggest tors has
ever seen. But they're gonna announce some sort of nuclear deal.
But the reason I brought it up, and I want
to talk about this more later, man, I was listened
to a podcast over the weekend and yesterday with a
writer from the Telegraphed. He's a commonist from the Telegraph
talking about the troubles great Britain has and you could
have it was I don't know how, I didn't know this,
(10:28):
but you could have taken Britain out of it and
put in the United States. And it was exactly the
same thing. Endless theft at stores where things are locked up,
illegal immigration, crime running rampant, so broke, and no neither
party has any interest in doing anything about it at
this point. The Conservatives have given up. Also, it's exactly
(10:50):
the same situation. So how is that? What is driving that?
And listen to this. There were gigantic marches again all
over Britain two days ago. I think it was I saw.
I've got a great story on that coming up. You
haven't heard a word about, got very little coverage. There
are hundreds of thousands of people in the street, enormous
anti immigration marches right and anti government marches. Essentially because
(11:14):
the government brought this upon them, they allowed it, they
encouraged it, they're still encouraging it. The Reform Party is
going to win the next election and that Nigel LeFarge
guy is gonna end up being the head dude, and
that is going to be one of the biggest political
earthquakes in any of our lives. It'd be like if
some if the Tea Party had won the next election
in the United States. Yeah, back in twenty ten. That's
(11:36):
what's going to happen in Great Britain because the Conservatives
are out and the Labor is out because nobody likes
either one of them anymore. Yeah, that's wild, but they are.
They are not. They're worse than us, but not quite
as bad as France in terms of their debt, but
they're exactly the same thing. They're two main parties have decided, well,
you can't get elected by running on we can't keep
(11:59):
spending like this. It's a disaster. So they just ignore it.
But how did that happen? How do they have the
combination of immigration, crime not being punished, and spending behind
their means, just like we do. What's in the water
that's made that happen? I would suggest a large measure
of it, and nobody ever talks about this, but I
will continue because I remain uncontradicted. Is the fact that
(12:22):
the Ponzi scheme absolutely depends on increasing the population on
young people, specifically young workers, and you're not having babies
Western world. And so for the very same reasons Germany
and France and the United States have opened their borders.
Britain did the same. They're desperate for young workers to
(12:43):
support the social safety net Ponzi scheme. Well, and with
that it requires all sorts of leftist programs just to
let it to kind of lubricate it happening. Yeah, we'll
have to talk about that later because, yeah, the letting
crime go. Why do we both do that at the
same time. Anyway, let's start the show officially before we
(13:06):
get in trouble. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Tuesday, September sixteenth to your twenty twenty five
for Armstrong in getting we approve of this program. All right,
let's beakin then officially recording FCC rules and regulations. Here
we go, at mark, come on, just one clear shot,
this all over?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Come on, we got to get away from me. Why
I want to fight him? Now kill us? Maybe you
want to die?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I'll jump first, Nope, and you jump first? Oh? I said,
what's the matter with you? I can't swim?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
The jump will kill you is the next line. That's
from Butcher cashtying the Sundance Kid. One of the biggest
movie stars of all time, Robert Redford has died almost
outlived his fame, as sometimes to people do, because you
almost got to be fifty five to remember him at all.
I don't know about that. Well, his big movies were
(14:10):
when we were little kids, and we're old. He had
a number that we're pretty big too. He's big director, producer,
true that. Anyway, we got a lot more to talk about,
headlines on the way stay here, for instance. And I
don't know the answer to this, but Katie, you're young.
Is Robert Redford mean anything to you as a movie star? Yeah?
He does, he does from what I'm not. I just
(14:33):
know who he is. I don't know a lot of
his roles, right, Yeah, you got to be old to
have seen him in movies. Really yeah? Yeah, but you well,
you don't have time to discuss this. Let's uh, it's
very late, very late. We'll discuss Robert in first long legacy, etcetera.
What you mean, big picture, it's very late. You just mean, like, no, no,
(14:57):
it's late. I'm looking at the clock. Oh okay, let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Katie starting with the Washington Post quote it was me suspect,
and Charlie Kirkshooting appeared to confess in discord chat.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah. Yeah, we were just discussing that last segment and
why he isn't standing up for his what he believes.
Why isn't he doing that?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
From The Free Beacon, new survey finds that nearly eighty
percent of Jewish college students hid their religious identity within
the last year.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I don't doubt that a bit, I am because they're
afraid of the right. Well, actually they are. Some of
the fringe woke right is blatantly anti Semitic boot on
campuses Bisca's the Left from the New York Post.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Hama's mouthpiece praises hack star Hannah Edinberg's Free Palestine Emmy's message,
but censors her bare shoulders in the video.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I didn't know that. We never played that yesterday, but
so somebody went on an anti Israel brant, but they
censored her bare shoulders. Yeah, that would be too much
for the children. There's too much shallow idiotic virtue signaling. Well, no, no,
she said. In the Muslim world, hey gotcha, they're outraged.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Getcha from study fines, the average child is earning more
than one hundred dollars per month in allowance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I could believe that with inflation. Yea one hundred dollars
anyone who used to be axios twenty five dollars a week. Yeah,
that's not hard to do at all.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Actually, let's go to the Babylon Bee fraud alert triggered
as wife's credit card used to spend less than one
hundred dollars at Target.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, no, kidding, Yeah, that's a perfect thing to fit
in with your allowance thing. I mean, you know, I
go to the grocery store to just get a couple
of things and it's a hundred bucks. Yeah, so it
shows you how he you know what one hundred dollars is.
I don't know. Three dollars a week was good enough
for me, it's good enough for my kids. Going to
be thrifty a quarter to take out the trash seems reasonable,
just like it was when I was right. We got
(17:12):
some more news of the day to get to and
there's a fair amount of it as always if you
missed a segment at the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Cracker Barrel announced yesterday that the company does not have
a DEI department or use those practices while hiring. In fact,
they don't ask you anything before hiring you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
You can start today. That's kind of funny. But is
there some narrative that Cracker Barrel is desperate for workers?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't get that.
I'm guessing Seth Myers has never been in a Cracker Barrel,
so no, wouldn't set foot in one. It's still good.
So it's pretty interesting that Luigi Manngioni, he's the scumbag
(18:00):
political assassin who killed the United Healthcare CEO in New York.
And then you got first court appearance today for scumbag
shooter of Charlie Kirk. Both politically young male political assassins
who aren't crazy by the definition of no, they're not,
(18:22):
they're not out of their minds. That was the guy,
the guy that killed that poor girl on the train.
He's completely crazy, right, So then you got it. That
topic has got to be why did we let a
crazy person crazy violent person room around the streets for
so long, right, you can't really blame him, But you
got two political assassins that are going to be in
(18:42):
courtrooms today, and you know, figuring out where we go
as a culture is a big thing, right Right. So
an interesting offshoot of the horrible assassination of mister Kirk
has been the fact that a number of people, a
(19:03):
shocking number of people on the left of center online world,
have been posting gleeful, celebratory, sarcastic celebrations of the cold
blooded murder of a young father. Well, you know, I'll say,
let's compare and contrast. You're going to have people. There
are people right now. I'm looking at the TV outside
(19:24):
the courtroom in New York City cheering Luis GIMNNGIONI the murderer.
Why are Why do they get to do it out
loud and not get the same sort of social pushback
that the people cheering Charlie Kirk's death are. I They're
both They're both as horrific in my opinion, right, they're
(19:46):
you know, morally speaking to me, the Charlie thing is
just so stark and clear. His message was the to
murder him. I don't like his ideas, I don't like
his words. I'm going to murder him. And then in turn,
I'm so happy he got murdered. The healthcare ceo that
(20:12):
morally speaking to me, it's clear enough, but it's not
quite as ab because healthcare in this country is screwed up.
Insurance companies have various practices that many people find loathsome
profit over humanity blah blah blah, lobbyist zeb and it's
just it's a little more cloudy to make the case again,
(20:35):
It's not difficult to me, but it's just not quite
as obvious. Yeah, a man, you got people cheering the
guy who's going to be in quarter who killed another
dad with young kids. So the CEO of United Healthcare,
it's so freaking sick. Oh yeah, trust me, at its core,
I agree with you one hundred percent. Hey, Michael, need
a couple of clips. Microsoft guy from yesterday, Let's trot
(20:58):
him out again. Clip fifth, the first shaven headed, bearded,
nos ringed Microsoft employee who most online over Charlie and
today that he was shot.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I said some things on Blue Sky and on threads
that i I'm sorry, not sorry for, but I said
them and I deleted them when it was requested that
I do so by my employer.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
And then today, on a weekend, on a weekend.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I'm told that I am no longer employed at Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yes, because you're an idiot after six years of idiocy
building the.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department from scratch?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh, is that it all right? H Next clip and
enjoy how he takes zero responsibility. I lose my job.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Because one of you, some random person, reports my posts to.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
My employer, goes out of their way to find out
where I work, and takes my job, takes my security
away from me for a thought, for an opinion, and
you talk about freedom speech like you care about it, and.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
You're just gonna take my money, my life, my food
off my plate because I don't like Charley Kirk.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
That's not okay. It is not okay to target me
because I felt joy that day. I can't help how
I feel. I felt joy. That's me, that's what I believe. Wow,
that's what I think of him. I can't help that,
(22:53):
you know, so I don't deserve the job.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I want to say is unclear on the concept, but
there's so much, many different concepts. He's unclear on. I
don't know where to start. He is, in an odd way,
kind of an avatar of a whole bunch of those
kind of points of view that I don't agree with.
He's got the whole I'm owed job thing because I
worked hard. You can work as hard as you want,
and if a company decides to downsize, they get rid
(23:19):
of you. That's not what happened here. They think you're
a nut because of your ridiculous posting, and then I
don't want you work in there, which is perfectly reasonable.
And to him, the criminal act was reporting what he said,
which his company found so despicable. They said, you can't
work here anymore. So the big bad thing that happened
(23:41):
in his mind is the reporting of it. Well, and
the whole crazy thing that a lot of people on
the left have of You know, these are my feelings.
You can't tell me my feelings are wrong. Well, you can.
I can tell you to keep them to yourself. You
got to keep your feelings to yourself. Yeah, so there
you go. You want to go, You want to go
home and be happy for somebody's death, even though that's
(24:01):
really twisted. I guess I can't stop you. But keep
it to yourself. Yeah, yeah, boy, there's a lot there anyway.
The Wall Street Journal now on the beach. Workers are
getting fired over posts mocking Charlie Kirk's death, campaigns to
alert employers to contentious posts, or posing new challenges for bosses.
This is very different from past political controversies at work.
(24:24):
They quote somebody as saying, well, before you get to that,
because that might answer the question I'll ask this. Are
people getting fired because companies think this is going to
really bring some pressure upon us? Or are the people
getting fired because companies are thinking you're not the kind
of person I want around here. Probably both. I think
it's the latter mostly, Yeah, And I mean, if we
(24:47):
had somebody post around here, I wouldn't think it's gonna
damage the operation. I just don't want you around. You're
a nut, right right? You know. I've been thinking about
this a lot because I am a crusader for free
speech rights everywhere all the time. And he invoked a
question of free speech. Of course, as I often say, yes,
you have the freedom to express your ideas, but if
people find your ideas loathsome they are going to react
(25:10):
badly to them. Why do you express yourself if you
don't expect your words to have an effect of some sort. Right.
But the difference, the only effect you want is people
in your tribe to give you a slap on the back. Right.
And I was talking to a friend recently who lives
(25:33):
in a blue state and works in a blue industry
and said, the level of assumption that everybody agrees with us,
and the complete blindness to the idea that even in
a blue state forty three percent of people disagree with me.
That's another example of what we were talking about earlier.
(25:53):
How if you're a conservative, you're faced with politics you
don't like always from birth. And if you lean left,
teacher agrees with you, the guy on the Emmy's agrees
with you, the guy at the concert you went to
agree with you. So you just assume everybody agrees with you.
So I think it's this. If I post something controversy controversial,
which I haven't do, I expect pushback. Yeah. But if
(26:14):
you're if you lean left, you probably post stuff just
expecting kudos. Yeah, because you're surrounded by people in uh
social media and on TV and all the things I
just mentioned who agree with you, and because you've bullied
your co workers into silence about what they think. So
you're shocked that somebody's upset with it. That is interesting.
I post expecting as could start a real war. Yeah,
(26:37):
they post thinking people are going to love me for this.
I just I don't. I can't understand how people fail
to grasp the reality of people who disagree with them.
It's as if that forty three percent in the bluest
of blue states, because it's probably something close to that.
It's as if they're a quite sound in the distance
(26:58):
they can't quite make out. They're dimly aware of it,
but they can't quite comprehend it. I don't know. It's
where it's difficult to explain because I don't live in
that world. But how do you think Trump got elected?
If you think everybody agrees with you, I guess you
think they're all somewhere else, or they're all ugly, fascist,
(27:19):
racist stereotypes. Couldn't be my coworkers or neighbors or the
people at this backyard barbecue right right. Again, the lack
of awareness is just difficult for me to comprehend. So
the outcry over employees' comments on kirk o post challenges
for employers. The journal is saying, they quote a associate
(27:41):
general counsel and vice president of HR for a big company.
This is very different. I don't really feel like there
was a time when you could have an individual make
a statement on their personal social media and have their
employer receive thousands of phone calls and then they go
through a long list of employers who've gotten those phone
calls and have taken action against employees or fired them
(28:05):
or whatever. Well, if you're a Boston you have both those.
You have the I don't want somebody who thinks this
working around here and I'm getting endless phone calls. Yeah. Right,
So I think there is a huge distinction between the
cancel culture of the George Floyd aftermath lunacy that took
hold of a lot of corporations in America and what
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(29:34):
to Great Britain and they stopped him to ask some questions,
and of course he had to go on about Robert
Redford because he's old. Oh that's just ay day. Oh boy.
So here's here's to me. A giant fundamental difference between
canceling somebody who tweeted all Lives Matter and firing somebody
(29:54):
who takes glee in the murder of Charlie Kirk, the
former the BLM woke uh, a crowd going after people,
a cancel culture. Thing was over fringe political opinions nobody
had heard of five years ago, ten years ago, certainly
(30:15):
five years ago then, and it was merely threats of
damage done by activists on the left, again on principles
that people are like, what are you talking about. It
was sheer ideological brutality. This is calling out somebody who
(30:36):
celebrates a cold blooded murder. Not celebrating cold blooded murder
is blanking universal in the Western world. That's true. You'd
have to compare it to people. And I don't know
anybody who did this who posted I'm glad George Floyd
got killed. But nobody was posting that right right, Yeah,
(30:58):
to even point out, look, this guy shouldn't have died,
but he wasn't a saint. I mean, he was a
drug addict and a you know, and a criminal. In
the rest of it, you could lose your job over that.
By the sheer viciousness of the mob. Celebrating cold blooded
murder is not a Johnny come Lately in the University
(31:19):
subculture new idea. It's horrific. My god. The Old Testament
was written thousands of years ago, and it's right in there. Well,
even without the morality of it, it's the end of
civilization or certainly self governance, right right, So I believe
it's fundamentally different. You know, I say, call somebody in
(31:41):
and talk to them. You don't need to summarily fire them.
I don't know, but that's up to you. I don't know, man.
I mean some of the posts that are just so
clearly blatantly gleeful about his death. I don't want you
around me. Right the year broken. We got mail bag
on the way Trump of course saying interesting things the
(32:01):
TikTok deal. Do you know what the TikTok deal is?
I don't quite get it. Having heard the details today,
stay tuned for all this, I guess. My continuing point
is every clip I've seen from a Robert Redfrough movie
on TV so far today has been from something from
the early seventies or late sixties. Uh. Yeah, that's fifty
(32:22):
years ago. Indeed, he was an old fella. He was
very old, very old. I'm sorry. Freedom will be quote
of the day and all discombobulated. This is from the
great JK. Rowling, who just posted this online. If you
believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents,
you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs,
(32:45):
you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish
those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe
political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're
a terrorist. Wow, some people think she should be put
in Slytherin for that. You know, well played, Phil Anonymous
in Salt Lake says, may I add, if you are
(33:05):
incapable of contemplating this because of who wrote it, you
have been brainwashed. Nah. That's a good one. That's a
good one, Philnonymous, well done. Mail Bag Drum's an ope
mail bag at armstrung a geeddy dot com moved swiftly here.
Sean writes, Guys, it must have been it's been difficult
to listen to blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He's taking issue with the idea that only the fringe
of the left is celebrating this shooting. That has not
been my experience at all. Having close friends who I
consider middle of the road liberals overhearing conversations out and
about and of course Twitter and even dating apps. I've
come across so many who cannot even fake a bit
of sympathy, at best, saying that spreading hate will put
(33:45):
a target on your back. At worst expressing glee and
unrestrained giddiness dating apps. People have these conversations on dating apps. Yeah, wow, yeah,
all right, thanks for the conversation, Sean. Yeah. At best
they're saying, look, you say hateful things, it's going to
put a argued on your back. Wow. All right. Let's
see this is Adam. Whether or not people agree that
(34:06):
the Microsoft guy should get fired over his tweets. I
find one thing interesting. He said he'd created the Microsoft
DEI program from scratch. It's also complaining about being fired
for his views, and people online found out of his beliefs,
which he willingly posted. How many people lost jobs or
didn't get hired because of this guy is the DEI
guy at Microsoft? Good one. How many qualified people who
(34:26):
maybe shared some of their beliefs, not that it matters,
didn't get a job because of his almighty DEI position.
Good point. This smacks of the left demanding the government
forced us to wear masks for COVID and now wants
ICE agents not to wear masks while arresting criminals. The
hypocrisy is palpable and disgusting. It's a good point about
the DEI Department. Let's see by the wait jump over
(34:49):
to this one. Oh, I like this Shelby from elkliss Grove, California.
She's really troubled by elk Grove having no elk. I
was catching up on the Fabulous Angie podcast. You briefly
mentioned people you knew of who found it relaxing to
end their day watching the news rant about how much
(35:10):
they hated Trump. They referred to this as some kind
of self care. Right. It worries me that there are
so many people that mentally and emotionally unstable. My completely
saying self care routine is as follows. One relaxing music,
two scented candles. Three reading a book, specifically Dante's Inferno.
So I can imagine to which circle of Hell each
(35:30):
politician's celebrity and public figure would be assigned. Eh, maybe
we're not that different anyway. Ohing two nice? Ah, I
need a laugh. That's beautiful. Let's see do we have
any more? How much time do we have Michael got
about forty seconds. It was doctor Jay in Charleston, South
(35:50):
Carolina who pointed out the reason the shooter is not
cooperating with authorities is because he had shared his plans
with some of the extremist buddies whose success kept a secret.
The authorities have this loser dead to rights. There'd be
no reason for him not to go full ideological squawk
box right now, except that it would compromise the people
who are also liable to be participating in his conspiracy,
(36:13):
perhaps just shooting off their mouths online, I suspect, but
if they knew and didn't come forward with the plans,
they've committed a crime. Get Ready to hear the word
genocide a lot in the next forty eight hours as
Israel has gone into Gaza to finally wrap this thing up.
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